It the newest Paul Taylor Dance Company season, his latest work, 'Concertiana,' is the news. It's Taylor's best in a long time, and signals a passing of the baton to a set of young dancers: Alex Clayton, Lee Duvenick and Michael Novak among them.
The 38th Toronto International Film Festival runs 34 screens from 8 a.m. to the following morning, and its director defends the scale without apology. At the halfway mark, Rex Reed confesses he has liked more of it than he can remember liking in any previous year — 'Philomena', 'The Railway Man', 'Dallas Buyers Club' — with 'The Fifth Estate' as the notable exception.